FastAPI tutorial

Code for my video tutorial FastAPI tutorial

What is FastAPI?

FastAPI is a high-performant REST API framework for Python. It's built on top of Starlette and it uses Pydantic for data validation. It can generate OpenAPI documentation from your code and also produces a Swagger UI that you can use to test your application.

Check out FastAPI's GitHub repository and give it a star! Also make sure to check out its excellent documentation online.

What is JWT authorization?

JWT stands for JSON Web Token and it's the standard way to add authorization to an API. Notice that we say authorization and not authentication: JWT tokens are used to authorize access to an API. JWTs are not used for authentication. Authentication is the process of verifying a user identity, and as part of this process we issue a JWT token.

If you don't know what JWTs are and how they work, take a look at my tutorial "Working with JWTs in Python" (https://youtu.be/VRn8cPc7B_w).